A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to Indian Youth Congress National President Uday Bhanu Chib, three days after he was arrested in connection with a protest at the India AI Impact Summit, reported Bar and Bench.

Chib was summoned for questioning by the Delhi Police on Monday and arrested on Tuesday morning.

On the same day, he was remanded to four days of police custody.

Judicial Magistrate First Class Vanshika Mehta of Patiala House Courts said on Saturday that Chib had appeared and participated in the investigation after he was served a notice, reported Live Law.

Mehta added that the police had not presented any reason to justify further custody of Chib.

The case pertains to a protest staged by at least 11 persons on February 20 during the AI Impact Summit.

The group had shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held placards alleging that he was “compromised”.

Following this, the Delhi Police, which reports to the Union home ministry, filed a case against the protesters, accusing them of rioting and promoting enmity between groups. It alleged that the protest was an attempt to disrupt the high-profile event at Bharat Mandapam.

The Youth Congress president was the eighth person to be arrested in the case.

A day before he was held, the police had arrested three other officials of the Congress’ youth wing, identified as Jitendra Yadav, Raja Gujar and Vimal Ajay Kumar, on Monday.

Yadav, a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, is the national coordinator of the Indian Youth Congress, the newspaper reported. Gujar is the president of the youth wing’s Gwalior unit, while Kumar is an office-bearer from Bhind.

Four party workers were sent to five days of police custody on February 21.

The five-day India AI Impact Summit began on February 16 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. It was promoted as a major gathering on artificial intelligence in the Global South, attended by 20 world leaders, technology executives and exhibitors from 30 countries.

On Thursday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioned the Narendra Modi government about the police action against members of his party’s youth wing, saying that peaceful protest is not a crime.

“Modi ji, this is not North Korea, it is India,” the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha said on social media. “When those in power start seeing themselves as the nation and dissent as the enemy – that is when democracy dies.”

Gandhi remarked that the world’s largest democracy was being “pushed in a direction where dissent is labelled as treason and asking questions is called a conspiracy”.

This came on the same day that a confrontation took place between police personnel from Delhi and Himachal Pradesh on the Chandigarh-Shimla highway when three Youth Congress members were arrested.

The two police forces accused each other of obstructing their investigations. The police in Congress-governed Himachal Pradesh filed a first information report against several Delhi Police personnel, accusing them of kidnapping the members of the ruling party’s youth wing.

Gandhi has been claiming since February 3 that Modi has been “compromised”, adding that he has “sold out” the “sweat and blood” of the country’s farmers by buckling under pressure from the United States to finalise a trade deal.